Sam Hinkie

And so you could see him at a very early age.

He's quite young.

You could see him at a very early age, criticizing the larger system and thinking about what his expectations were and how that matched.

I often think of it the other way.

If you wanted to understand me better, I'm 42.

If you went back, call it for the last 30 years until I was 12 and just found one person per year and talk to them about me and ask them a set of questions, that's all me.

The middle of that distribution is me.

You'd find a hater.

You should discount that.

You'd probably find my mom.

You should discount that.

She'd be too nice.

Everybody else would be like, oh, Sam is awesome at this and sucks at this and is frustrating at this and is amazing at this.

And we love him for this.

True, true, true.

That's roughly true.

And I've changed plenty, but the sum total of all that is useful.

And so to the extent people have...

written blogs or posted things on Twitter or created some artifact that I think of, they've sort of buried in time that I can go find.

That's often amazing because you get a chance to see people over a long period of time.